St. Michael (Zollikerberg)

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Church with tower from the west
View from the north
View from the northeast
The church tower from the south
The bell chamber
Glass window by Max Rüedi in the inner courtyard
Church portal by Max Rüedi
Archangel Michael by Max Rüedi
inside view
Chancel at Christmas
Graf organ from 1966

The Church of St. Michael is the Roman Catholic parish church of Zollikerberg , which forms the eastern, higher-lying district of Zollikon . The parish of Zollikon-Zumikon includes three churches: In addition to the parish church of St. Michael in Zollikerberg, these are the Brother Klaus chapel in Zumikon, which belongs to the parish, and the parish church of the Holy Trinity Zollikon . Since 2013 the parish of St. Michael Zollikerberg-Zumikon and the parish of the Holy Trinity Zollikon have formed the pastoral care room Zollikon, Zollikerberg-Zumikon.

history

History and naming

In the Middle Ages, Zollikerberg was part of a church after Zollikon. There was a chapel in Trichterhausen in Zollikerberg , which used to mean the Weilhof and Unterhob . This chapel was first mentioned around 1270 and the last time in 1443. The consecration of this chapel was celebrated on the Sunday after the octave of Pentecost . This chapel has been out of use since the Reformation and was demolished in 1860.

The Catholic Church in Zollikerberg was consecrated to the Archangel Michael . The church received this patronage according to tradition that churches on a height or on a mountain were often dedicated to this church patron, since according to Daniel 10 and 12 and Revelation 12 he was "the great leader and fighter against the dragon and his followers" be. “The Archangel Michael should therefore guard and protect all people from the mountains.” Following this tradition, the Church of St. Michael Uitikon and the Church of St. Michael Dietlikon were also consecrated to the Archangel in the canton of Zurich .

Development and construction history

After the Reformation in 1523, Catholic worship was banned in Zurich and the associated areas for almost 300 years. The Edict of Tolerance of the Zurich Government Council of September 10, 1807 allowed a Catholic community in Zurich for the first time. As a result, the first Catholics moved to Zollikerberg again. In 1898 they initially belonged to the Church of Our Lady Zurich , then between 1902 and 1927 to the parish of Küsnacht , from 1926 to the parish of St. Anton Zurich-Hottingen .

On January 1, 1932, they were replaced by this again and raised to a separate parish together with Zollikon-Dorf. In 1955 the Catholic parish of Zollikerberg was appointed parish vicariate and on January 1, 1966, parish rectorate. In 1974 St. Michael became an independent parish, but has remained with the Zollikon-Zumikon parish to this day.

When more structural development began in the 1920s and 1930s after the construction of the Forchbahn to Zurich, more and more Catholics also moved to Zollikerberg. In Rebwiesquartier therefore been included in the property Schwendberg Hausenstrasse first 11 Notkapelle furnished. This was assigned on June 18, 1944. After the Second World War , there was a real building boom in Zollikerberg, which is why the building land for today's church was purchased in 1952.

On January 23, 1962 the Catholics of Zollikerberg founded a building commission. In October 1962, the jury decided on the light project by the architect Karl Higi . On September 20, 1964, Vicar General Alfred Teobaldi consecrated the foundation stone , and construction was completed at the end of April 1966. The first service took place on July 10, 1966.

With 4,476 members (as of 2017), the Zollikon-Zumikon parish is one of the medium-sized Catholic parishes in the canton of Zurich.

Building description

Church tower and exterior

Located near the Zollikerberg hospital and the Zollikerberg station of the Forchbahn , the church of St. Michael is located on sloping terrain at the corner of Neuweg and Wilhofstrasse . The 32 meter high, pentagonal concrete tower shows, thanks to its height, from a distance where the church is located. His belfry was designed with cubic shapes in such a way that it looks like a hand from some angles. The tower is crowned by a 2.90 meter high and 1.50 meter wide cross. There are five bronze bells in the church tower, which are coordinated with the chimes of the reformed church in Zollikerberg. They were made by the Rüetschi bell foundry , Aarau, consecrated on Ascension Day and raised into the tower by the school children on May 19 and 20, 1966. The five bells have the following dates and inscriptions:

number Weight volume dedication inscription
1 2100 kg c Most Holy Trinity laus honor virtus gloria tibi trinita aequalis una deitas (= you, triune and equal God be praise, honor, strength and glory) and Te patrem ingenitum te filium unigenitum te utriusque spiritum laudamus benedicimus et confitemur unum deum (= you, father , the ungenerated, you, son, the only begotten, you, both spirit, we praise, praise and confess as the one God)
2 it Virgin Mary ave patris filia ave mater filii ave sponsa spiritus ave templum trinitatis sume nostrum ave (= greet you bride of the spirit, greet you temple of the Trinity, receive our greeting) and Ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes generationes (= see, therefore be all sexes call me blessed)
3 G Saint Michael princeps exercitus coelestis michael archangele esto memor nostri (= you prince of the heavenly host, archangel Michael, be remembered) and contra nequam sis adjutor nostro in luctamine (= be our helper in the fight against the devil)
4th b Saint Paul vas electionis est mihi iste ut portet nomen meum coram gentibus et regibus et filiis israel (= has been chosen for me to bear my name to the heathen and to the kings and sons of Israel)
5 300 kg c Saint Anthony antoni doctor optime ex ore tuo requierentes legem disiplinis instrue divinis (= Antonius, you best teacher, teach from your mouth those who strive for God's law with the divine wisdom !) and Evangelizare pauperibus misit me sanare contritos corde praedicare captivis remissionem (= "God sent me to proclaim the good news to the poor, to heal the afflicted and to preach liberation to the prisoners)

Due to the sloping terrain, it is not immediately obvious from the Zollikerberg train station that the parish center is located under the church. At the corner of Neuweg and Wilhofstrasse , a rectangular inner courtyard opens up to the visitor, which is laid out between the church tower, the rectory and the actual church building. The glass windows on the back wall of the arcade between the rectory and the church and the church portal with enamel work were designed by the Zurich artist Max Rüedi . The church portal was built by the metal construction workshop Epper in Zollikerberg from Peraluman.

The church of St. Michael consists of a polygonal concrete structure, which is closed by a black-covered flat roof. Hans Hitz writes about the outside shape of the church: “The building cube appears monastic and hides the secret behind quiet walls. The modern man should seek peace in his agitation and in the noise of the big city and world full of longing and ... behind these closed walls ... find peace and quiet. "

Interior and artistic equipment

The church is designed as a transverse building and gathers the church of God on pews in a semicircle around the altar island. There is space for up to 500 people on the benches. The arrangement of the pews refers to the communion idea of ​​the Second Vatican Council , which emphasized the community of believers and pastors. The floor, which is covered with dark stone slabs made of Genoese slate , slopes down slightly towards the sanctuary, giving those who sit further back a good view of the sanctuary. The 800 m² ceiling of the church is clad with American redwood and contains lights that are arranged in a manner reminiscent of a starry sky. A window front in the staggered church roof with blue-tinted antique glass based on a concept by Max Rüedi allows daylight to fall discreetly into the church. Because the church was designed as a "Upper Room", it is deliberately kept simple. The white altar is recognizable as the center , behind which the altar wall with its large and calm wall surface refers to it.

Since the Second Vatican Council was still in progress and the liturgical constitution had only a few years earlier determined the departure from the Tridentine Mass to the celebration of the Eucharist in the mother tongue, including the return of the priest to the people, the design of the Church of St. Discussed in the church. Should the altar be designed for both types of celebration , i.e. towards the back wall of the sanctuary and towards the believers? How and where should the holy of holies be kept? Does the baptismal font belong in the entrance area of ​​the church or near the altar area? These questions were decided in favor of the new understanding of the Second Vatican Council, so that the Church of St. Michael was one of the first newly built churches in the Diocese of Chur , in which this concept was spatially implemented, after the Church of All Saints in Zurich-Neuaffoltern, also built by architect Karl Higi .

The ambo and the altar are made of light Cristallina marble and were created by the Zurich sculptor Joseph Wyss. A silver cross with a corpus hovers over the chancel. To the left of the raised altar area is a baptismal font made of dark marble, which in its three-part form refers to the Trinity . In the middle of the baptismal font, water flows into the baptismal font from a square spout with a cross shape. The font was created by the Zurich sculptor Reinhard Stutz.

The St. Michaels Chapel is on the right side of the church. The tabernacle was designed by Meinrad Burch-Korrodi, Zurich. Benches invite you to pray in front of the Holy of Holies. A smaller altar, created by the sculptor Josef Nauer from Pfäffikon SZ, offers the opportunity to celebrate the Eucharist with a smaller group. The artist Verena Loewensberg painted the ceiling like a canopy. On the right side wall of the St. Michaels Chapel a baroque, framed sculpture of the namesake of the church, St. Michael, was attached. On the left side of the main church space there is a raised gallery above the sacristy, on which the organ stands and a choir can be found.

Stained glass window

The gallery at the back of the church contains stained glass windows by the artist Max Rüedi. The four windows represent the struggle of good against evil and end with the victory of good. To the right of the church portal, the first window symbolically shows that humans are protected by the angelic world and takes up the motif of the guardian angel . The largest colored window at the back in the middle of the church deals with the fight of the Archangel Michael against God's adversary . The third, smaller colored window towards the floor shows the seven-headed dragon from the Revelation of John , "against which we all have to fight together with St. Michael." In this window Max Rüedi reduces the representation of the dragon to his snake heads. Their teeth, red tongues and glistening eyes are condensed into warning symbols and thus refer to evil. Finally, the fourth glass window is in the St. Michaels Chapel on the right side of the church and represents the vision from Revelation 12, where the woman - Mary as the symbol of the church - saves the divine child from the dragon and into the desert hastened.

  • Snake window, glass window by Max Rüedi

  • Helping angel

  • Apocalyptic woman

Way of the Cross

In 2002 a way of the cross by the artist Paul Wyss was attached to the wall of the gallery . As a special feature, after the 14 traditional stations, it offers a 15th station that symbolizes the resurrection of Jesus Christ . This special station is located near the baptismal font and thus refers to the connection between resurrection and baptism on Easter vigil. The entire way of the cross is free in form and in the statement reduced to the essential theological elements. Based on the tabernacle and the choir cross, the individual stations were cast in a silver-bronze alloy. The modulation of the surface is different and remains gray-black in depth like the floor of the church. By polishing the silver alloy, the raised surfaces are given a bright surface that takes up the white of the plastering on the wall.

organ

The organ has two manuals and a pedal with 20 registers and comprises 1360 pipes. The game action is purely mechanical. The instrument was designed by Josef Bucher, Zurich, based on a baroque sound ideal and built by the Graf organ builder in Sursee . For architectural reasons, the blinds of the swellable Rückpositiv were not made of wood, but of synthetic glass. This means that the pipes remain visible even when the blinds are closed.

I Manual C-g 3
Principal 8th'
Covered flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Gemshorn 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Mixture V 2 ′
II Manual C-g 3
Covered 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Quartan II 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 ′
shawm 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Capstan whistle 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Rauschpfeife II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
bassoon 16 ′

Lady Chapel

To the right of the main entrance of the church is the Marien-Kapelle, in which the weekday services are usually celebrated. It contains a stained glass window by Ferdinand Gehr from 1992. The then 96-year-old artist depicted man's relationship to the divine dimension in abstract forms.

literature

  • Parish Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels-Kirche Zollikerberg. Festschrift for the inauguration 10 July 1966. Zollikerberg 1966.
  • Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
  • Parish Zollikerberg (publisher): 25 years of the Church of St. Michael Zollikerberg. Zollikerberg 1991.
  • St. Michaels Foundation Zollikerberg (Ed.): Reflections on the Way of the Cross. Zollikerberg 2002.
  • Markus Weber: Zollikon, Zollikerberg, Zumikon. Three catholic houses of worship. Ruswil 2016

Web links

Commons : St. Michael (Zollikerberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the parish
  2. ↑ Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (Hrsg.): Schematismus. P. 269.
  3. ↑ A small guide to St. Michaels Church. In: Parish Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels-Kirche Zollikerberg. P. 20.
  4. ^ Henri Truffer: Association of Roman Catholic Parishes of the City of Zurich. Zurich 1989, p. 192
  5. ^ Parish Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels-Kirche Zollikerberg. P. 5.
  6. ↑ Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (Hrsg.): Schematismus. P. 269.
  7. ^ Parish Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels-Kirche Zollikerberg. P. 5.
  8. ↑ Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (Hrsg.): Schematismus. P. 269, and Zolliker yearbook 1990.
  9. ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2017. p. 84.
  10. ↑ Hans Hitz: The new church in the service of pastoral care. In: Parish Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels-Kirche Zollikerberg. P. 17.
  11. ↑ Website of the parish, section History of St. Michael's Church. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
  12. ↑ A small guide to St. Michaels Church. In: Parish Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels-Kirche Zollikerberg. P. 20.
  13. ↑ Hans Hitz: The bells of St. Michaels Church. In: Parish Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels-Kirche Zollikerberg. Pp. 24-26.
  14. ↑ Small guide through the St. Michaels Church , in: Pfarrei Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels Church Zollikerberg. P. 20.
  15. ↑ Hans Hitz: The new church in the service of pastoral care. In: Parish Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels-Kirche Zollikerberg. P. 17.
  16. ^ Parish Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels-Kirche Zollikerberg. P. 12 and 21.
  17. ↑ A small guide to St. Michaels Church. In: Parish Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels-Kirche Zollikerberg. P. 21.
  18. ^ Parish Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels-Kirche Zollikerberg. Pp. 12–13 and 15.
  19. ↑ A small guide to St. Michaels Church. In: Parish Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels-Kirche Zollikerberg. Pp. 21-22.
  20. ↑ Karl Higi: Building in time , in: Pfarrei Zollikerberg (Ed.): St. Michaels-Kirche Zollikerberg. P. 15.
  21. ↑ A small guide to St. Michaels Church. In: Parish Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels-Kirche Zollikerberg. P. 21.
  22. ↑ Small guide through the St. Michaels Church , in: Pfarrei Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels Church Zollikerberg. P. 20.
  23. ↑ Veronika Kuhn: All in all - a cosmos in pictures. Max Rüedi and his picture creations, in: Schweizerische St. Lukasgesellschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook Art and Church. 2013/2014, p. 20.
  24. ↑ Small guide through the St. Michaels Church , in: Pfarrei Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels Church Zollikerberg. Pp. 20-21
  25. ↑ St. Michaels-Stiftung Zollikerberg (Ed.): Reflections on the Way of the Cross. P. 36
  26. ↑ St. Michaels-Stiftung Zollikerberg (Ed.): Reflections on the Way of the Cross. Pp. 37-38.
  27. ↑ Small guide through the St. Michaels Church , in: Pfarrei Zollikerberg (ed.): St. Michaels Church Zollikerberg. Pp. 22 and 26-27.
  28. ^ Markus Weber: Zollikon, Zollikerberg, Zumikon. Three catholic houses of worship. P. 9.

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